2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #22

Sun May 22

• Solar power is already saving lives in the US. Here's how. by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, May 19, 2016
• Exxon's Legal Woes Over Climate Change Just Got a New Twist by John H Cushman Jr, InsideClimate News, May 18, 2016
• The Fort McMurray fire’s stunning pulse of carbon to the atmosphere by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, May 20, 2016
• Study Helps Explain Sea Ice Differences at Earth's Poles, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, May 20, 2016
• La Niña coming? Deep pool of cool water is making its way across tropical Pacific by Rebecca Lindsey, Climate.gov (NOAA), May 16, 2016
• Humans damaging the environment faster than it can recover, UN finds by Fiona Harvey, Guardaian, May 19, 2016
• New Solar Plants Generate Floating Green Power by Erica Goode, New York Times, May 20, 2016
• Scientfically Engineered Coral Could Sruvive Climate Change Devastation by Richard Schiffman, Newsweek, May 22, 2016

Mon May 23

• Trump cannot derail global climate deal by Alex Kirby, Climate News Network, May 20, 2016
• In Last Months In Office, Here's How Obama Seeks To Cement Paris Climate Accord by Pete Ogden, Forbes, May 19, 2016
• Climate Change Compounds Humanitarian Crises in Global South by Diego Arguedas Ortiz, Inter Press Service (IPS), May 20, 2016
• Wildfires in West have gotten bigger, more frequent and longer since the 1980s by Anthony LeRoy Westerling, The Conversation US, May 23, 2016
• Trump acknowledges climate change — at his golf course by Ben Schrekringer, Politico, May 23, 2016
• Climate denial arguments fail a blind test by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus -the 97%, Guardian, May 23, 2016
• Coastal Cities Look to Resilience Chiefs to Combat Climate Change by Erika Bolstad, Scientific American/ClimateWire, May 23, 2016
• The legacy of “An Inconvenient Truth,” explained by 16 really smart people by Grist Staff, Grist, May 20, 2016

Tue May 24

• Climate groups join forces for election campaign blitz by Michael Slezak, Guardian, May 23, 2016
• Abrupt Atlantic Ocean Changes May Have Been Natural by John Upton, Climate Central, May 22, 2016
• Climatarian, vegavore, reducetarian: why we have so many words for cutting back on meat by Kate Yoder, Energy & Environment, Vox, May 21, 2016
• Exxon Investors Seek Assurance as Climate Shifts, Along With Attitudes by Clifford Krauss & John Schwartz, New York Times, May 23, 2016
• Brexit campaign leadership dominated by climate-sceptics by James Crisp, EurActiv.com, May 24, 2016
• Do regional climate models add value compared to global models? by Rasmus Benestad, Real Climate, May 22, 2016
• Portland Bans Climate-Denying Textbooks From Its Schools by Katie Valentine, Climate Progress, May 23, 2016
• Fossil Fuel Investments Growing Riskier for Insurers, Report Warns by Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News, May 24, 2016

Wed May 25

• Lake Mead helps supply water to 25 million people. And it just hit a record low. by Brad Plumer, Energy & Environment, Vox, May 23, 2016
• Down with guilt! There are much better ways to get people to act on climate change. by Heather Smith, Grist, May 23, 2016
• Fed up with denial, Alberta introduces aggressive climate change bill by Christopher Adams, National Observer, May 24, 2016
• My father warned Exxon about climate change in the 1970s. They didn't listen, Op-ed by Claudia Black-Kalinsky, Guardian, May 24, 2016
• World octopus and squid populations are booming by Patrick Monohan, Science, May 23, 2016
• America Now Has 27.2 Gigawatts of Solar Energy: What Does That Mean? by David J Unger, InsideClimate News, May 25, 2016
• Exxon’s CEO Just Won: His Shareholders Rejected Climate Change Proposals by Samantha Page, Climate Progress, May 25, 2016
• The second coming of the Dirty Thirties? Climate change will bring drought and depression. Op-ed by Sylvain Charlebois, Globe & Mail, May 25, 2016

Thu May 26

• Here’s More Proof That Saving The Climate Doesn’t Have To Kill Jobs by Casey Williams, Huffington Post, May 25, 2015
• Rising Seas Push Too Much Salt Into The Florida Everglades by Christopher Joyce, NPR, May 25, 2016
• Economic Interests Harming Global Health: WHO Chief by Lyndal Rowlands, Inter Press Service (IPS), May 24, 2016
• Donald Trump wants to build a wall – to save his golf course from global warming by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, May 26, 2016
• Climate change: waiting for catastrophe means we will be too late to act, Op-ed by Ian Dunlop, Sydney Morning Herald, May 25, 2016
• Global clean energy employment rose 5% in 2015, figures show by Damian Carrington, Guardian, May 25, 2016
• Stonehenge, Easter Island, Venice: Climate Change Will Destroy Human History by Sarah Emerson, Motherboard, May 26, 2016
• Exclusive: Effect of CO2 on warming is worse than we thought by Michael Le Page, New Scientist, May 25, 2016

Fri May 27

• El Nino bows out after driving year of record heat as La Nina lurks in the wings by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, May 25, 2016
• Donald Trump would allow Keystone XL pipeline and end Paris climate deal by Ben Jacobs, Guardian, May 26, 2016
• Trump sends shivers down spines of nations trying to solidify global warming pact, AFP-JIJI/Japan Times, May 26, 2016
• Meteorologists are seeing global warming's effect on the weather by Paul Douglas, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, May 27, 2016
• Australia Pressed UN To Ignore Great Barrier Reef In Key Climate Report by Nick Visser, Huffington Post, May 27, 2016
• Exxon's Donations and Ties to American Geophysical Union Are Larger and Deeper Than Previously Recognized by Phil McKenna, Zahra Hirji & Lisa Song, InsideClimate News, May 26, 2016
• Climate Change Could Be Poisoning Your Food by Natasha Geiling, Think Progress, May 27, 2016

Sat May 28

• Trump: America First on Fossil Fuels, Last on Climate Change by John H Cushman Jr & Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News, May 27, 2016
• NOAA: Near-Normal Hurricane Season Expected by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, May 27, 2016
• G7 Wants to Kill Fossil Fuel Subsidies by 2025, But We Could Do It 'Twice as Fast' by Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, May 27, 2016
• Scientists puzzled by slowing of Atlantic conveyor belt, warn of abrupt climate change by Mike Gaworecki, Mongabay, May 27, 2016
• Africa’s Most Vulnerable Face an Even Hotter Future by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, May 26, 2016
• Arctic could warm by 17C if all known fossil fuels are burned, study finds by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, May 23, 2016
• Climate change is the most pressing issue of our time. So why isn't it getting more play in the election?, Op-ed by Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times, May 28, 2016
• Chatham House: Brexit could harm UK climate and energy policy by Sophie Yeo, Carbon Brief, May 26, 2016